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(Re-)Introducing HiveInvite. Invite your friends!

After a wayyy too long period of neglect, being approached by several people at HiveFest made me speed up the process and fix https://hiveinvite.com, which now should be fully operational again.

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What is HiveInvite

Onboarding to Hive comes with a multitude of challenges, and one of the biggest issues is account creation. There are plenty of services out there, but they all rely on someone's account creation tokens to be available, and key security isn't perfect.

HiveInvite offers a fully featured solution for everyone to use the core Hive functionality of creating an account yourself, and doesn't reveal the keys to new accounts to anyone else but the new user.

Claim account creation tokens

HiveInvite lets you claim your own account creation tokens in several ways. These tokens are not transferable, and can be used at any time to create a Hive account.

The current cost, defined by the witnesses, is 3 HIVE. This small amount of HIVE is necessary to prevent everyone from just creating all the account names they can think of and squatting the whole namespace. If you have staked a large amount of Hive Power, you can claim these tokens for free by spending a big amount of RC. This is possible with about 5000 HP, but the current number is very dynamic. For the whales out there it's possible to claim a maximum of 100 tokens at once.

Create invites

The core functionality of HiveInvite is of course creating invites.

There are 3 main ways to do this:

you can send out an email with customized text to the address of the person you want to invite
you can create one or multiple invite links, which you can forward in any way you want
you can create public invites that require the new users to introduce themselves to you, and optionally verify their socials. These invites are published on https://hiveinvite.com/public.html

Each of the options leads the new user to the second part of the app

Accept invites

Anyone with an invite link can use it to request the creation of an account. They will be provided with a passphrase, used as master password to create their Hive keys. Each step explains the importance of the keys and how to handle them safely. After choosing their username, they will be forwarded to the hive.blog FAQ, to give them something to read while they have to wait for the creator of the invite to actually

Create the account

In this last step, the creator of the invite has to create the account on the blockchain, using their active key. Optionally some HP can be delegated right away. The account will be usable right after that.

Internationalization

HiveInvite is meant to be used all over the world! It's been a long time since the initial translations were done, and a lot of the stuff is outdated. Check out the GitHub if you can help fixing one or two of the locales. English and german are up to date and can be used as templates.

Closing note

I hope this tool is useful for you, please leave me a comment when you use it successfully!

Please vote for my witness to show that my work for Hive is appreciated, and if you have some free time yourself get over to https://propol.is and help us create the ultimate resource about Hive and everything else in our own decentralized wiki!

Comments · 24

@hallmann(80)· 661d
Unfortunately, our main problem is still present. I checked it yesterday and described it here.
@atma.love(71)· 665d
i didn't know about this. I created an invite.

Thanks for info.
@ssekulji(80)· 701d
Just invited @driipam and she accepted :)
@hivebuzz(74)· 702d
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@marilui91(66)· 702d
Thanks for this important information to the Hiver.
@kvinna(71)· 702d
Schau mal @reiseamateur, vielleicht ist das auch interessant für Dich, aber wahrscheinlich kennst du es eh schon.

Jedenfalls passt das ins Dezember-MeetUp, oder was meinst Du?
@gaottantacinque(62)· 702d
It's great to see improvements in that area, which is onboarding, since it's a common issue.
@denmarkguy(79)· 702d
I'm really glad to see this come back to life @pharesim... and perfect timing, as I am about to embark on a period of "publishing content on Hive for external consumption" and had been pondering the best way to also enroll potentially interested parties as Hivers.

What I particularly like here is that the process actually links the person offering Hive accounts to the person signing up. One of the weak links (at least to my mind) of efforts to promote Hive is the lack of connection enabling a "recruiter" to connect with "enrollees."

I know some would say "oh, you can just do that through Discord!" but I don't think Facebook would have reached 4 billion users if they had to also have a 3rd party app in order to talk to each other. That's blogging, 1997 style....
@hivepulse(54)· 702d
It's good but I guess Hive needs to work on retention of users who already are on Hive
@buttcoins(75)· 702d
First i want to say thank you for working on this tool… very needed! I was excited to give it a test run!

I’m a dipshit so might be doing something wrong… though the page seems simple without many options, but im in a loop of signing successfully but then it telling me im not added to the wallet. I’m on the keychain app, using the internal browser, and typically when im on a site inside of keychain it auto signs in without issue. I click sign in with keychain button and it signs successfully, then it loops back to same page, and now i put my user name in..tried hitting enter and hitting sign in with key chain button, but i get the notification not added to wallet. As there are few other variations to do it, im a bit confused as to what im doing wrong. 😬
@shanibeer(74)· 702d
This is great.

One thing I'm still not clear about - can I create accounts using account creation tokens or have I got to burn some HIVE?

Also, it would be really helpful to have a minimum amount for RC delegations to allow an account to get started. I mean how much RC do I need to delegate?
@gabrielatravels(79)· 702d
I think we should have this pinned somewhere, or even re-shared once in a while. It's way too useful especially for newbies who might want to bring their friends on the platform too.
@resiliencia(75)· 702d
Thank you @pharesim ! Just for your information, there are some parts that are not translated. For example:

I assume it's not a priority, but anyway.

Thanks!
@akumagai(69)· 703d
About bloody time, you got back and fixed it. I lost some hive from this project of yours a while back and you were no where in sight. I hope this time round you don't set and forget about it again.
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@niallon11(77)· 703d
Great to hear it. This used to be my main source of onboarding before it faded away.
@antisocialist(75)· 703d
Do you plan to add rc delegations?
@sanjeevm(78)· 703d
I earlier created accounts using leofinance, because they delegate a little hive power, to the new account, how much minimum delegation is needed for someone to start ?
@acidyo(85)· 703d
Need to look deeper into the new additions soon, was just today talking to a dev about the issues hiveonboard's neglect has caused ocd's onboarding program, maybe we could move over to hiveinvite instead. Thanks for your contributions!
@fieryfootprints(74)· 703d
It is a shame that some of my accointances seems to be anti crypto. one classmate who was familiar with crypto joined, stayed for +- a month and left without ever making a post. It seems he hoped to get rich just by curating...
@intoy.bugoy(73)· 703d
Interesting for Onboarding process, for sure this will be a great help
@cryptictruth(74)· 703d
Any tool that makes onboarding user easier is good. I think we struggle with onboarding on retention. I think if we continue to work in this area it will benefit us all.
@fonestreet(73)· 703d
Grat work, i hope the friends i invite come do they work!

@geca.originario @vito-corleone @alexacatcb @yordinflores23 @ades.ink @dooh92 @esencia

Thats a few Friends onboarding.
@seki1(71)· 703d
Ohhhh

This one is quite nice...

Lovely initiative...

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